Getting Indexed

Within the Getting Indexed section below, you'll find articles and tutorials on submitting your Web site to search engine crawlers, search directories, and pay per click (PPC) search engines. As you'll see below, you may not need to submit to search engine crawlers at this point, but there's information about this, along with which search engines, directories, and other search engines are most important and worth considering.

Do you know of some helpful, insightful articles, tutorials, books, or resources related to search, SEO, or SEM? Recommendations are welcome and encouraged!

Search Engine, Search Directory Submissions

Editor note March 2006: If you're submitting your site to search engine directories, such as DMOZ, you probably don't need to submit to search engine crawlers, such as Google - as SEO expert Danny Sullivan states in his article, Submitting To Crawlers: Google, Yahoo, Ask/Teoma & Microsoft's MSN, “Here's the good news: if you submitted your site to the major directories and got listed with one of them, then Google and other crawlers will almost certainly pick up the URL that was listed. This means you may not need to do additional work to get listed with crawlers.”

Below, however, you'll find helpful tutorials, FAQs, and other information about submitting your site and where it's important to submit your site, too.

Submitting to Search Engine Crawlers

As stated above, you may not need to submit your Web site to search engine crawlers, such as Google, Teoma, or MSN, but here are some articles, tutorials, and tips that goes into further detail and also explains how and where to submit your site to crawlers.

Google: Web Search Listing TipsValuable tips with helpful links about getting listed with Google. The page also includes a listing of the latest SEW blog entries on this topic, too. Note that this link is within the Paid Subscriber area of the site, so it's only available to subscribers of the Web site.[Article/tutorial by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch.]

Submitting To Crawlers: Google, Yahoo, Ask/Teoma & Microsoft's MSN Part 4 of a 4-part series, Essentials Of Search Engine Submission. Explains that it's probably not necessary to submit to these crawlers and why, but you can if you wish, and he provides the information about how to submit to Google, Yahoo!, Teoma, and MSN. Helpful information, links, and more about whether or not you need to submit to these major search crawlers, paying for paid inclusions, and more. [Article dated 07/05/2004 by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch.]